Comments on: Preview of things to come at UFC 77 ??http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/09/26/preview-of-things-to-come-at-ufc-77/
Your Destination for Insider MMA News and OpinionTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:08:14 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1By: dicehttp://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/09/26/preview-of-things-to-come-at-ufc-77/#comment-2873
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:42:53 +0000http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/09/26/preview-of-things-to-come-at-ufc-77/#comment-2873I have no doubt that Franklin/Silva 2 will be a lot closer. I think rich has learned a lot from that loss and has looked pretty good in his last 2 wins (even though its very hard to look good against okami). I don’t know if he will win, but silva should be expecting a better rich franklin.

I agree with mma skool that silva has some holes in this game. On paper I think he would have a lot of trouble with hendo. He would not have the advantage in the clinch (no one does against hendo) and he would have trouble knocking Henderson out (one of the best chins in all of mma). Plus the biggest hole in silvas game is hendos biggest strength: wrestling. Sam is right, dan may be a badass but he needs to move down just for the companies sake. Their middleweight division is not very deep and they are missing some key guys (filho, kang, linland).

]]>By: mma skoolhttp://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/09/26/preview-of-things-to-come-at-ufc-77/#comment-2840
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:51:47 +0000http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2007/09/26/preview-of-things-to-come-at-ufc-77/#comment-2840I’m not a Franklin homer or “fanboy”. I like both fighters. I even like Okami, who could probably give Silva some trouble. But Franklin’s not going to get caught in Silva’s mt clench a 2nd time, and if he gets in close and takes Silva down like he did Loiseau (suplex anyone?), it’ll be over for Silva. Just watch the Silva-Lutter fight. If Lutter had any gnp he could’ve finished Silva instead of stupidly going for an arm bar… He punched him a few times in the face and then he stopped and went for a submission while he was postured up from the mount!? (That moment almost made me think that match was fixed.)

Silva is a great fighter and I like watching him destroy people as much as the next MMA fan, but his ground game hasn’t been proven against the ground and pound. Franklin won’t try to win a standing or JJ match.